Conditions ripe for phone viruses to spread
Viruses and hacking on mobile phones are still rare but attacks are a looming danger as more people access the internet and download files with their handsets, experts say.
A survey released this week at the industry's Mobile World Congress showed that only 2.1 per cent of users had been hit by a virus themselves and only 11.6 per cent knew someone who had been affected by one.
The poll by IT security specialist McAfee, based on 2,000 people in Britain, the United States and Japan, showed that 86.3 per cent had had no experience of mobile phone viruses.
